Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist,
Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12
books, dozens of scholarly articles,
hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and
thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and
writes more than 15, modern and ancient,
languages. He refuted Greek nationalism,
supported Martin Bernal’s Black Athena, and
rejected the Greco-Romano-centric version of
History. He pleaded for the European History
by J. B. Duroselle, and defended the rights
of the Turkish, Pomak, Macedonian, Vlachian,
Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and Jewish
minorities of Greece. Born Christian
Orthodox, he adhered to Islam when 36,
devoted to ideas of Muhyieldin Ibn al Arabi.

Greek
citizen of Turkish origin, Prof.
Megalommatis studied and/or worked in
Turkey, Greece, France, England, Belgium,
Germany, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt
and Russia, and carried out research trips
throughout the Middle East, Northeastern
Africa and Central Asia. His career extended
from Research & Education, Journalism,
Publications, Photography, and Translation
to Website Development, Human Rights
Advocacy, Marketing, Sales & Brokerage. He
traveled in more than 80 countries in 5
continents. He defends the Right of
Aramaeans, Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas,
Berbers, Darfuris, and Bejas to National
Independence, demands international
recognition for Kosovo, the Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus, and Transnistria, calls
for National Unity in Somalia, and denounces
Islamic Terrorism.

For the tyrannized and slaughtered nations of
East Africa, a great news heralds a vigorous
dynamics able to bring about the total collapse
of the Abyssinian tyranny of the Tigray Dictator
Meles Zenawi. The Conference for Peace and
Stability in the Horn of Africa that was held
last Sunday, December 9, in London consisted in
the first effort of coordination among Eritrea,
various representatives of the Somali Nation,
and delegates from various liberation movements
of Abyssinia’s Ogadenis and Oromos, the two
largest nations among the subjugated peoples of
tyrannical, racist Abyssinia.

At the present level, the effort represented
mainly the Diaspora, i.e. organizations set up
by various Somalis, Ogadenis, Oromos and
Eritreans who live in Europe and other parts of
the world. It is expected that this coordination
effort will signal an even larger attempt among
the mainstream political forces of all the
numerous tyrannized nations - components of the
anti-fascist forces in the Horn of Africa
region.

Eritrea is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural
state that aspires to progress and development;
however, its existence has been repeatedly
threatened by the aggressive and totalitarian
elites of the Amhara and Tigray Abyssinians
around tyrant Zenawi and the fake opposition
party Kinijit that consists entirely of survived
friends, colleagues, relatives, and ministers of
the cruel Communist tyrant Mengistu.

Somalia is by now partly occupied by Zenawi’s
Abyssinian clannish thugs who comically
impersonate a supposedly national army. Other
parts of Somalia have been stricken by strife
and division orchestrated by the racist,
anti-Somali Abyssinians.

Ogadenis are Somalis, who have been
peremptorily attributed by the departing (in the
late 40s and early 50s) British colonials to the
murderous, barbaric and cannibalistic
pseudo-king of the Amhara Abyssinians, Haile
Selassie.

Oromos are the largest nation of Abyssinia,
fallaciously re-baptized ‘Ethiopia’, who have
been progressively subjugated in the 2nd half of
the 19th century, and massacred even since by
the racist Amhara and Tigray elites whose acts
and policies, tactics and strategies reveal
their atrocious attempt to perpetrate an
appalling genocide against all the other Horn of
Africa nations.

Meadna news is a well documented and very
informative website; we will reproduce here a
report about the Conference that was first
published in the worthwhile portal.

We only hope that the effort is taken by all
the Eritrean, Somali, Ogadeni, and Oromo
leaderships as an example to repeat at a larger,
nationwide scale, including representatives of
the equally tyrannized Sidamas, Afars,
Shekachos, Kaffas, Kambatas, Anuak, Agaws, and
Wolayitas of ‘Ethiopia’.

A Conference for Peace and Stability in the
Horn of Africa was held in London on Sunday
December 9th 2007, bringing communities from
Ogaden, Somalia, Eritrea and Oromo together.

The conference, first of its kind, was
jointly organised by the Oromo Youth
Organisation, Ogaden Youth Organisation,
Eritrean Youth Organisation and Somalia Youth
Congress to address problems in the Horn of
Africa region, including killing of civilians,
destruction of livelihoods, war crimes, rape and
sexual assaults, arrests and detentions,
occupation, forced expulsion and violation of
international rulings that are being committed
by the Ethiopian regime.

Followed by the official opening of the
conference, representatives of Oromo Youth
Organisation, Eritrean Youth Organisation,
Ogaden Youth Organisation and Somalia Youth
Congress gave presentations on the state of
affairs of their countries and people in
historical context respectively.

The Oromo representative, stating the present
time as “historic moment”, expressed their
delight to have the opportunity to “voice our
voice for those voiceless majority Oromos in
Ethiopia”. The presentation focused on gross
violation of human right in Ethiopia, including
the extrajudicial killing, disappearances of
hundreds of thousands Oromos, mass detention and
economic crimes directed at all Ethiopian ethic
groups denying them to engage in any significant
economic activities. The presentation described
the plight of Oromo farmers who are “facing
unprecedented scale of eviction from their
farming land which time in memorial belongs to
their ancestors”.

The presentation also highlighted the role of
the powerful nations that have got the Ethiopian
regime as their ally to their war on terror “are
in reality supporting a terrorist government”.
The presentation further added “whether it is a
matter of coincidence or intentionally, the US
government is supporting the most brutal,
undemocratic, corrupt and uncivilized political
power in Ethiopia”.

Describing the Ethiopian regime as the “the
most notorious threat to East Africa”, the
presentation stated “the TPLF went into war with
Eritrea in 1998 to 2000, which ended up with the
loss of 70,000 lives and displacement of 700,000
people. In the involvement of Ethiopian
government into internal affair of Somalia, the
direct targets of the TPLF are Oromos who took
refugee in Somalia.”

This was followed by Eritrean presentation,
which focused on “historic moment”, expressed
their delight to have the opportunity to “voice
our voice for those voiceless majority Oromos in
Ethiopia.” The presentation focused on gross
violation of human right in Ethiopia including
the extrajudicial killing, disappearances of
hundreds of thousands Oromos, mass detention and
economic crimes directed at all Ethiopian ethic
groups denying them to engage in any significant
economic activities. The presentation described
the plight of Oromo farmers who are “facing
unprecedented scale of eviction from their
farming land which time in memorial belongs to
their ancestors”.

The presentation also highlighted the role of
the powerful nations that have got the Ethiopian
regime as their ally to their war on terror “are
in reality supporting a terrorist government”.
The presentation further added “whether it is a
matter of coincidence or intentionally, the US
government is supporting the most brutal,
undemocratic, corrupt and uncivilized political
power in Ethiopia”.

Describing the Ethiopian regime as the “the
most notorious threat to East Africa”, the
presentation stated “the TPLF went into war with
Eritrea in 1998 to 2000, which ended up with the
loss of 70,000 lives and displacement of 700,000
people. In the involvement of Ethiopian
government into internal affair of Somalia, the
direct targets of the TPLF are Oromos who took
refugee in Somalia”.

This was followed by Eritrean presentation,
which focused on the current problem, the
refusal of the Ethiopian regime to abide by the
international final and binding ruling and
historical context of the role of the US in the
region and particular its policy on Eritrea and
Ethiopia which has been the same for over half a
century. The presentation also highlighted the
human suffering including the mass deportation
of Eritreans from Ethiopia and displacement of
hundreds of thousands of people.

The Ogaden presentation was also presented in
historical context and the main focus of topics
were the plight of the Ogaden Somali people,
natural resources, the root causes of the Ogaden
trouble and human right violation. The
presentation was backed by very distressing
images and videos of specific cases of killing
of civilians, rape and sexual assaults, arrests
and detentions and torture. The evidences were
very distressing and caused the presenter and
most of the attendants of the conference to
burst into tears and weeping.

The presentation also highlighted the role of
the western nations in supporting and assisting
the Ethiopian regime through billions of
dollars, which is directly allowing Meles Zenawi
“butcher more Ethiopians, Ogaden Somalis, also
allow him to invade neighbor countries Eritrea
and Somalia”. The presentation ended appealing
to the international community to intervene in
the plight of Ogaden Somalis.

Finally, the representative of the Somalia
Youth Congress presented equally distressing
picture of the Situation in Somalia. The
presentation highlighted the death of over 6000
civilians, 7000 wounded people and displacement
of 1.5 million Somalians, which was caused by
the Ethiopian invasion and occupation of
Somalia. The presentation also looked at the
role of the US, “the Bush administration instead
of supporting the IUC for getting rid of the war
lords immediately branded the IUC hardliners and
made those who have been killing and robbing the
Somalian people his allies as well as supporting
the Ethiopian occupation”.

Pointing out the agenda of the Ethiopian
regime, which is to stop Somalia from uniting
and reconstitute their country, the presentation
stated “the majority of Somalians do not support
the Somalian transition government; it is not an
independent government but one that is
controlled and guided by the regime in Addis”.
The presentation similarly ended with a call on
the international community to listen to the
screaming of the Somalian people for help. After
giving the attendant of the conference the
opportunity for discussion, the six-hour long
event was concluded with agreement to stage a
peaceful demonstration in January 2008 and
invited all the people of the Horn of Africa and
friends of the region to join them in their
appeal to the international community for peace.